The Wealthy Barbarian

That’s it, folks. I’m all done here. No more working for me, no more shovelling, no more looking at the snow and grunting and swearing, No more writing columns, no more getting up before 10 a.m., and no more doing the dishes. That’s right: I’m about to be independently wealthy.

It’s actually a good thing that I still have a fax machine at work, or else this sudden wealth may not have presented itself. This is a chance of a lifetime. As a business person, you sometimes are given opportunities out of the blue that you have to act on in order to benefit fully. I have been the recipient of such a gift, and believe me I am on it like a fat kid on a Smartie.

It all started when one ‘Michael J. Simpson’, a private consultant for some very important persons in the Asian and South African…